Abstract The current tendency in the eastern part of Europe is to modify old diesel engines with purpose improving characteristics terms horsepower and torque, but also reduce generated pollution. are still use, against tendencies renouncing their support, at least larger urban & industrial areas, where pollution level, especially particulate matter (particles PM10, PM2.5) ozone concentrati...

Workflow formalisations are often focused on the representation of a process with the primary objective to support execution. However, there are scenarios where what needs to be represented is the effect of the process on the data artefacts involved, for example when reasoning over the corresponding data policies. This can be achieved by annotating the workflow with the semantic relations that ...

The “Cold-Start” problem is a well-known issue in recommendation systems: there is relatively little information about each user, which results in an inability to draw inferences to recommend items to users. In this paper, we try to give a solution to this problem based on homophily in social networks: we can use social networks’ information in order to fill the gap existing in cold-start probl...

Matrix Factorisation is a recommendation approach that tries to understand what factors interest a user, based on his past ratings for items (products, movies, songs), and then use this factor information to predict future item ratings. A central limitation of this approach however is that it cannot capture how a user’s tastes have evolved beforehand; thereby ignoring if a user’s preference for...

Developing a pattern language is a non-trivial problem. A critical requirement is a method to support pattern writers with abstraction, so as they can produce generalised patterns. In this paper, we address this issue by developing a structured process of generalisation. It is important that this process is initiated through engaging participants in identifying initial patterns, i.e. directly d...

This paper deals with the modeling of the brushed DC motor used as a reinforced starter for a micro-hybrid automotive application. The aim of such a system, also called “stop-start”, is to stop a combustion engine when the vehicle pulls to a stop, and to restart it when the driver accelerates. A reinforced starter is able to ensure this new function in addition to the classical cold start. Then...